Eric Washington Wants to “make sure our scheme fits our personnel"

[JakeDel5674]

14 hours ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

We need peanut tillman as a secondary coach and get us back to the thieves avenue mentality. We need to get back to being aggressive about stripping the ball out

Pretty sure he's trying to be an FBI Agent. 

[JakeDel5674]

9 hours ago, Saca312 said:

Wasn’t the NFL’s worst,

Close to it, that's for damn sure. 

[pantherj]

2 hours ago, imminent rogaine said:

For real. I don't know if it was just the frequency or if we were somehow telegraphing who and when was coming but a lot of times it felt like whoever was blitzing just ran straight into an extra blocker and was completely negated.

It looked like Captain was just out there taking a break when asked to blitz. He's tiny, and he gave minimal effort, and he was usually miles from the QB. Luke gave 100% to blitz, but little RBs were knocking him WAY off course, and he's just not good at blitzing. We have the wrong pieces in place blitz like that.

[shulasmyhero]

12 hours ago, Saca312 said:

Sure about that?

We got more pressure and sacks from just rushing four than we have blitzing.

Taking a look at the Vikings game alone, all but one sack came as a product of rushing four.

The reality is, rushing four can actually be more productive than blitzing as pass rushers have more space to exert pressure. Blitzing works when offenses don’t pick it up, but sadly Wilks never found the magic formula with our group to create blitzes that truly keep an offense on its heels as the year went on.

Yeah, I'm sure.  

[Davidson Deac II]

5 minutes ago, shulasmyhero said:

Yeah, I'm sure.  

The stats don't back you up.  40 sacks from our defensive line would place them solidly among the best in the NFL at getting pressure on the qb.   And I would rather have several good pass rushers than one dominant one. 

[shulasmyhero]

Stats can mislead.  The MN game referenced was against a decimated online.  Didn't need to blitz.  Need edge rushers in bad way.

[UpstatePanther]

17 hours ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

We need peanut tillman as a secondary coach and get us back to the thieves avenue mentality. 

Isn't he already an assistant with us? Would make alot of sense.

18 hours ago, jfra78 said:

We either need better DBs or be more creative in how we rush the QB

I honestly think it's a hybrid of both. I'm not sure which is the priority, but I believe Washington will at least bring a change of pace to the rushing part. I do want to see the team make a valiant effort to bring in fresh, preferably young, blood in our secondary that fits our scheme. I don't mind running a zone scheme, even though I'd rather us run man. But the players we currently have failed miserably playing some last year.

11 hours ago, iamhubby1 said:

    If you are going to blitz, you had better know your opponent. And you had better be able to disguise it enough to confuse even a Brees. 

Yes to this. But I think part of knowing your opponent is knowing when to not get cute. With Brees, you almost can't play zone. He's too good. He'll pick you apart every time. Certainly can't play a zone blitz against him. That's making it easy for Brees. Unless you disguise the zones really well. I think people assume it's the blitz you have to disguise. It's not. A good QB is gonna pick up on that. But putting your DBs in position to capitalize on a hurried throw by a great QB is the real key.

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, shulasmyhero said:

Stats can mislead.  The MN game referenced was against a decimated online.  Didn't need to blitz.  Need edge rushers in bad way.

Sometimes they can mislead.  But they can also provide the only facts we have to go off of.   I think we were good enough irt edge rushers this past season.  That being said, I agree we are going to need some edge rushers, if for no other reason than the age of our DE's.  Johnson is done, and Peppers might have another season left, or he might retire. 

[panthers55]

17 hours ago, Cartel de Carolina said:

curious if we played man or zone mostly against the saints. 

Problem was we didn't dictate that as much as the Saints did by using spread formations which Wilks countered by going to a zone.  He didn't dictate to the offense as much as reacted to the offense meaning offenses dictated to us what we did instead of the other way around .

[shulasmyhero]

3 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Sometimes they can mislead.  But they can also provide the only facts we have to go off of.   I think we were good enough irt edge rushers this past season.  That being said, I agree we are going to need some edge rushers, if for no other reason than the age of our DE's.  Johnson is done, and Peppers might have another season left, or he might retire. 

I don't actually disagree for the most part but I think edge rusher is a perhaps a bigger need than many here.  My initial point was really that I think Wilks blitzed frequently because he didn't have confidence in the front 4 getting there consistently.   We need a dominant edge rusher that teams have to plan for and potentially double team.  Addison is solid and Peppers had a good year but neither of them at this point strike fear into opposing offenses.

[Mr. Scot]

7 hours ago, UpstatePanther said:

Isn't he already an assistant with us? Would make alot of sense.

No. Peanut's a broadcaster.

[Cartel de Carolina]

7 hours ago, panthers55 said:

Problem was we didn't dictate that as much as the Saints did by using spread formations which Wilks countered by going to a zone.  He didn't dictate to the offense as much as reacted to the offense meaning offenses dictated to us what we did instead of the other way around .

Actually, the Saints bread and butter was their run game. 

We dictated to them that they were not going to beat us running the ball. 

But the problem is they have Brees and Payton, so they have no issue slanging the rock also. 

When it comes to D, you gotta see what the O likes to do and try to shut it down. 

Then you need to think about how they will counter and how you will counter their counter. 

Game plans and strategy should be fluid and evolving. 

 

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, Cartel de Carolina said:

Actually, the Saints bread and butter was their run game. 

We dictated to them that they were not going to beat us running the ball. 

But the problem is they have Brees and Payton, so they have no issue slanging the rock also. 

When it comes to D, you gotta see what the O likes to do and try to shut it down. 

Then you need to think about how they will counter and how you will counter their counter. 

Game plans and strategy should be fluid and evolving.

The problem was also that we had Shula.

[JARROD]

8 hours ago, panthers55 said:

Problem was we didn't dictate that as much as the Saints did by using spread formations which Wilks countered by going to a zone.  He didn't dictate to the offense as much as reacted to the offense meaning offenses dictated to us what we did instead of the other way around .

He had to go zone more because we don’t have the secondary to go man to man often.

watch other posts where people complain we went man to man too much and stressed our secondary too much.

Our secondary sucks, and I think Wilks made the defense look at lot better than it was by maximizing our best asset, front 7 and minimizing the weakness(DB) by going zone coverage a lot.